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PACKAGE m2. APPLICATION HLED JUNE 11, 1917.

Patented Feb. 7, 1922 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS T all whom it may com/amt Greener: s'rour, or IMERCHANTVIILLE; irEitsE YQY recxeen TIE.

Be it knownthat I, Gnoesn W. S'roo'r, a citizen of the .IID1tCl' St21tQS, res dlng at;

; Merchantville, county of .Qarnden, State of I New Jersey,.have invented a new and usetul Package Tie, of which the followingv a specification.

In a contemporaneously pending application filedby me Dec-ember 30th, 191.5, Serial No. 69,408, I have disclosed and described a novel formoi' package tie, which is adapted in conjunction with a cord or 5 string to expeditiously, .reliablyand eificiently wrap or secure a bundle of letters, newspapers or packages of any nature or. when made in larger sizes to;be effectively used in tying; bales of bulky material.

My present invention is a division of the application aforesaid and relates particularly to a package tie having a solid plate or body made of any suitable material, such as fibre, metal, wood or other material possessingthe requisite strength and rigidity, although in practice I prefer to make said plate or body or" vulcanized fibre, said body having an extension, handle or tail-piece, an eye therein for the reception of a knotted end of the tying cord and a novel arrangement of kerfs, so correlated with respect to the median line of said longitudinal extension or tail-piece, that the tying cord can be caused to readily interlock and engage with said kerfs and be looped or secured upon said extension or tail-piece in such a way,

that the bundle, package or article is efficiently tied and cannot be accidentally unfastened. I

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawing one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same will 1 be found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of these instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a package tie embodying my invention and showing also the tying cord and a package secured thereby.

Figure 2 represents a plan view of the package tie in'detached position.

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l j designates my novel construction of H z t etee Fe 'i? f922- Original application filed December 30, 1915, SeriaI'No. 69,408. Divided'and'tiiisja n a ibfii in ,7 .A I 1 I 11, 1917. Serial No, 173,930.

package tie, the same comprising the solid.

plate or body 2, 1 which ;-is preferably constructed of vulcanizedcfibreor similar material, said body being preferablypf circular form, althoughv in accordance with the broad thereof may beg-varied according to.. equ irefisd esignates a longitudinal extensionv or ta l-piece wh ch HIS-1 arranged diametrically spirit of my inventionfithe exterior contour. Y

with respectito said body or, in otherwords,

so as to; form an extension of the diameter of aid b y; d n one s e of t e ma line of saidbody I locate the obliqi e cuts,

kerfs or slots 4; and 5, the slot ,5 being the nearer to said tail-piece or extension 3. Substantially opposite to the kerf 5, I locate the kerf 6, which alsoextends in an oblique direction to the median line of said body, the kerfs 4:, 5 and 6 having nearly or substantially thesame' line of inclination, the kerf 5 extending in nearly a radial line.

7 designates-a hole or eye eccentrically located in the body-'2, through which is passed the tying cord 8 the latter having a knot 9 therein. The manner of manipulating the tyingcord will'be apparent from Figure l, the body of the tie being first'laid on the top of the package or bundle, as seen therein. The freeend of the cord 8' after being Wrapped, carried or looped a desired 1 number of times around the package 10 has its free end at about the point 11 passed upwardly through the slot or kerf 4 thence over the top of the tie, and thence. downwardly through the kerf 5,, thence under the tie and upwardly through the kerf6 and lastly is looped or tied, as indicated at 13, around the extension, handle or tail-piece 3, said free end being looped inany desired manner therearound.

I preferably construct the sides of said extension, handle or tail-piece 3 with in wardly converging Walls 12 so that the looped or knotted portion l8'will not readily slip off or be disengaged therefrom.

It will be evident that my novel tie'can be used in conjunction with-a tying cord in other ways than that shown, without departing from the spirit of *my' invention. ackage or handle it is only necessary to isengage the looplor knot 13 1897, to employ a ring-like member having slots and eyes therein in conjunction with a handle having parallel sides but my inventionis differentiated therefrom by reason of the employment of the handle or extension 3 having inwardly converging walls and by reason of the novel collocation of slots or kerfs with respect to the solid "plate or body portion, which I employ, and to the aforesaid construction, I herein make no claim.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful'construction of a package tie which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which will be found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages;

Having thus described my invention what Iclaimas new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

In a package tie, a body portion, comprising a plate having an extension 3 proj ect-ing diametrically therefrom and, provided with inwardly converging side walls 12, an eye 7 eccentri'cally located in said body at one side of a median line thereof, passing through said extension, and a slot 6 on the same side of said body as said eye positioned intermediately of said eye and said extension and extending inwardly at an oblique angle to said median line, and

terminating at a point intermediate said eye and extension, said body having on its opposite side two slots 4 and 5 extending thereinto on a line oblique to said medianline,

said slot 5 extending substantially radially into said body, and all of said slots being substantially parallel with eachother and extending into said body at substantially the same angle to said median line.

GEORGE \V. STOUT.

W itnesses E. HAYWARD FAIREANKs', O. D. MCVAY. 

